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Subject: Re: _open LFN & Win 2K Bug (Was Re: a bug)
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:32:00 -0500 (CDT)
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> What about characters like <, >, and | -- what happens then?

They also cause the error to be 123 decimal; so maybe this is a new
special early exit code saying "invalid file name?"  Its so much fun
when they give you new features.

> > An easy fix would be to change the doserr_to_errno translation table.
> 
> That'd be probably the easiest fix.  Please add a comment there
> explaining what is this for.

I'd like to see Andrew's comments first to see if we need multiple
changes in the table.